Home Institution: Universität Mainz (Germany)

IKGF Visiting Fellow October 2012 - March 2013

IKGF Visiting Fellow August 2016 - September 2016

IKGF Research Project

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Li studied Chinese Language and Literature in Beijing and received his B.A. in 1983 (Thesis: Differentiation and Analysis of Ancient Chinese Synonyms). In 1983, he became a lecturer and later associate professor at the Institute for International Exchange of Beijing Foreign Studies University. From 1997 until 2002, he occupied the position of a lecturer for Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Göttingen. During his time in Göttingen, he studied Indology. From 2004, he continued his Indological studies at the University of Mainz where he took his PhD in 2011. From 2007 until 2011, he was Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG- Projekt ) working on his PhD ? an edition of the legend Sudhanavadana in its Chinese and Khotanese versions in comparison with Sanskrit and Tibetan sources. In 2011-2012, he was lecturer at the Institute of Indian Studies at the University of Mainz.

Research Interest

History of Buddhism in India and China; origin and translation methods of early Chinese translations of Buddhist texts.